[OpenID] BBC acts as OpenID provider. wikipedia says so.

[Chris Messina]

I hear that Wikipedia is edited by a bunch of amateurs. ;)
Seriously though, BBC has talked about supporting OpenID for sure, but as
for whether it's turned on yet, I think that's not entirely true. We know
that the BBC has joined the foundation, but nothing about joining the
foundation binds an organization to implementing OpenID.

I think this needs to be edited out of the wikipedia entry.

Chris

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Peter Williams <pwilliams at rapattoni.com>wrote:

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openid asserts (when I read it, a moment ago)
> that the BBC acts as a provider of OpenID authentication.
>
> Wikipedia asserted (a moment or two ago): "OpenID authentication is used
> and provided by several large websites. Organizations like AOL, BBC,[1]
> Google,[2] IBM, Microsoft,[3] MySpace, Orange, VeriSign, Yandex, Ustream and
> Yahoo! act as providers.[4][5][6]"
>
> Can someone point me to how I get a BBC-minted openid?
>
> However, the BBC's Jem Stone says they won't "immediately be offering
> OpeniDs on bbc.co.uk or even promising to do so." First they have to "make
> absolutely sure that this is right for users, is secure and can be
> implemented properly across all the BBC's many services." So it's really the
> announcement of an intention, not a service yet. [from a while ago:
> http://uk.techcrunch.com/2008/04/23/bbc-joins-openid-but-it-wont-work-yet/
> ]
>
> If the BBC is truly provisioning openids, presumably they are accepting
> them; at least their own. Anyone got a BBC URL where I can type myopenid?
>
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